Clothes-line bracket.



' No. 871,638. PATENTED NGV. 19, 1907. J. D. SCHMIDT.

CLOTHES LINE BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.22, 1907.

jpg/wm JOHN D. SCHMIDT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

UNITED CLOTHES-LINE BRACKET.

No. 871,638. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 22| 1907. Serial No. 363\813 Patented Nov. 19, 1907.

To all whom it may be insertedito hold the arm in subconcern: 18 may Be 1t known that I, JOHN D. Soniiinr, a stantially horizontal position, as will be hereand a resident inaiiter described.

citizen of the United States, of the city oi New York, borough oi Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State oi New York, have invented a new and 1mproved Clothes-Line Bracket, ci which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. r

The inner side oi the hub is provided with a lug 19 designed to engage-in a notch 20 'formed in the edge of the bracket bodyplate and the said hub 10 lis provided at its outer end and opposite the extension of the arm with n outwardly extended lug 21.

In operation, when articles are to be placed on a line, the arm carrying the line is to be swung into the window until the lug 19 engages in the notch 20, after which the pin 18 is to be passed through the perforations; the lug engaging in the notch will prevent the arm from swinging upward oi' downward, and the pin extended through the block will prevent the arm -from swinging outward. When the articles are on the line the arm may, if desired7 be swung downward at the outer side oi the window, asi dicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1; that is, the pin 18 is to be removed, the arm swung outward in a substantially horizontal direction as indicated in Fig. 3, which of course releases the lug 20 from the notch, and at this time the arm may swing downward; and it is obvious This invention relates to improvements in devices adapted to be secured adjacent house windows and serve to support clothes lines; the object being to provide a device oi this character that will be simple in construction and so arranged that the house end o' a line may be drawn through a window, permitting a person to place articles on the line without leaning out of the window; thus reventing the possible danger of a person ailing.

I will describe a clothesline support embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specilication, in which similar characters oi reference indicate corresponding parts in all the v iigures. that when the line is not in use the tightener Figure 1 is a perspective view oi a line arm may hang downward at the outer side of tightener embodying my invention; Fig. 2 the window. /Vhen the line is in use, and

.and Fig. 3 is a perspective detail showing y angles to the body portion and this hub por- 11, which at the is a detail section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; the arm is m perpendicular position, or substantially so,'the line is to be passed over the hub as indicated in dotted lines, and the pro- 'ection 21 will prevent the line from passing ofi' the end oi the hub.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new, and desire to -secure by Letters Patent z# 1. A clothes line support, comprising a suitable bracket, a intle pivotally mounted thereon'and adapte to move in a horizontal lane, an arm pivotally mounted upon said pintle and adapted to move in a vertical the position of parts to permit the tightening arm to be lowered when not in use.

The device comprises an arm 5 having at its tree end an outwardly extended projection provided with a notch 7 in which a loop S attached to the Jframe oi the pulley 9 may engage. At the opposite end, the arm is provided with a hub 10, extended at righttion has swinging engagement with a pintle outer end of the hub portion is provided with aperforation through which plane, and means carried by said arm and a astening device may be removably passed, adapted to engage with said bracket to prevent vertical movement oi the arm when it is moved horizontally to one of its limiting positions.

2. A clothes line support, comprising a bracket, a pintle pivotally connected to said bracket and adapted to move in a horizontal plane, and an arm mounted upon said pintle and adapted to move in a vertical plane, said bracket being provided with a recess and said arm being provided with a lug adapted i'or insertion within said recess to prevent verti- Ihave here shown lfor this purpose a cotter pin 12.

The pintle 11 is extended Jfrom a block 13 having swinging connection with a bracket, here shown as pivot-plates 14 extended outward Jfrom a plate 15, designed to be secured to one side 0i the i ndow-casing at the outside as clearly indicated in Fig. 1.

The pivot-plates 14 are provided with per- Jforations 16 designed to aline with a perforation .17 through the block 13, so that a pin Vcal movement of the arm after having been hub removably engages, means for preventmoved horizontally to one of its limiting pomg the accidental detachment of the hub sitions. from the pintle, a block to which the pintle 3. A clothes line support, comprising a 4is attached, a bracket comprising a main bracket, a pintle pivotally mounted thereon plate having a notch in its edge, plates eX- and adapted to move in a horizontal plane, tended outward from the main plate and to a locking pin adapted for insertion within which said block is pivoted, the said lastrec'esses in said bracket and said pintle for named plates and the block being erforated, locking said pintle against horizontal movea locking pin passing through t e perforament, an arm pivotally mounted upon said tions, and a lug on the inner side of the hub, pintle and adapted to move in a vertical for engagement in the notch of the main plane, and a lug carried by said arm and plate. adapted to enter a recess in the bracket and In testimony whereof I have signed my -hold the arm against vertical movement name to this specification in the presence of when the pintle is locked against horizontal two subscribing witnesses.

movement by said pin.

4. A clothes line support, 'comprising an JOHN D' SCHMIDT' arm having at its free end an outwardly- Witnesses: turned portion provided with a notch, a hub CLAIR W. FAIRBANK,

at its opposite end, a pintle with which the JOHN P. DAVIS. 

